If someone were to hurt Sam Harris’ family, would he be OK with letting the perpetrator be on his way, since he has no control over his actions? Furthermore, where does Sam Harris get off trying to tell people what to think, since by his own admission, he’s never had an original thought in his life?
The most important part of this video starts at 4:10 minute mark and culminates in what he's saying about free will being " free wont ". It might take some time to grasp this as it did for me but when you do it is amazing.
Yes, same for me. I think this made something click for me. It's like an exercise in self acceptance. The thing that I want to do - knowing that inside myself I've already decided to do it. And to not do it, I have to choose not to. Sometimes just hearing something you already know to be true explained in a differing way just makes it click
Why do we have consciousness at all? Why aren't we just pre-programmed robots carrying out actions with no sense of consciousness? There seems to be something more going on than mere materialism.
It's also interesting that materialists go into quantum physics for answers yet also quantum physics has a basis on an immaterial reality, you can't have both. Our minds are amazing, and just out of this world.
End of the video and I'm thinking, "Could you imagine if everyone the world round applied the doctrine of The Sermon On The Mount and The Ten Commandments without putting a religious label on it?" If people ever wanted to break and destroy the very systems that enslave us and not be screaming in the streets with the wrong definition of the word "protest", that would be the way to do it.
Second year neuroscience student here, definitely not an expert so take this with a grain of salt maybe. I reckon the video does a good job of convincing people to go against the materialist viewpoint but I don’t think it is really informative. Like they say themselves materialism is a philosophy but so is the opposite. Neither side to my knowledge has fully been proven nor has either been fully disproven. What I find strange is that they define eliminate materialism but then continue to argue against all materialism. Eliminative materialism is extreme in thinking that the mind as a concept does not exist. Commonly materialists do believe there is a mind and a self but just believe that those arise from the brain structure. The evidence that they deliver also has some issues in my opinion. The man who trains people to deal with their OCD is presented as if this is proof that materialists are wrong when in essence it doesn’t go against the idea of materialism at all. If you consider that a materialist will believe that there is no free will because we are influenced by our surroundings. Training someone is influencing their surroundings by offering new/different information which could change their brain for the better. In essence this is no different from telling a child who really wants to touch hair straighteners that they are hot and that it will burn them so they learn to not touch it. A second (and in my opinion most alarming) piece of evidence I have an issue with is their claim that a person will be fine and still be a unitary person instead of spitting into two people after having their corpus callosum severed. In reality this is known to cause split brain syndrome which is literally like the two halves of you body sometimes acting like two people. E.g. the right hemisphere will feel like eating a mars bar so the left hand reaches for one but the left hemisphere wants to be healthy and makes the right hand hit it out of the left hand. The fact that they ignore this is very funny as they claim that materialists ignore evidence that doesn’t support their viewpoint as they are literally doing it themselves. The neurologist in the video should really know about split brain syndrome it’s literally one of the most basic neuroscience fun facts for school kids out there. As for the readiness potential and Free Won’t I haven’t read the paper and don’t feel like I know enough about it to really say anything worthwhile so I will give it to them that might be actual evidence. However, as they say themselves in the video this doesn’t fully disproves materialism so meh. So my final verdict: the video is heavily dramatised and might convince someone who doesn’t know anything about the brain but anyone whose research goes as far as to simply just read a Wikipedia page or two on various neuroscientific philosophies will know that there is no conclusive answer and it is wrong to present your evidence as if it is conclusive. So all in all quite poorly made on the actual science aspect.
Brilliant! Thank you guys for making this episode a tiny bit longer :) Please keep up the great work. Near death experiences may not be empirical proof of the independence of mind from matter, but many report conscious perception for extended periods after their brains have stopped showing any activity at all, and before they are resuscitated. This may be subjective evidence, but can we really assume all who have gone through an NDE to be deluded, or just straight up lying?
I've heard some fascinating accounts of these, as well. Accounts that seem to be solidly confirmed. But I still haven't yet decided what to make of this though...
@@LoveYourNeighbour. Same here. The percentage of people who report such experiences is rather small, but not insignificant. The majority have reported no such experiences at all though. Perhaps it's something like a psychedelic experience, which reveals to you the secrets of the universe while high, but then slowly deconstructs and fades from memory like a dream as it wears off. Many a time I've woken up with no detailed or specific memory of having any dream, but I know that I was dreaming because of some faint but lingering feelings. Maybe the majority don't need to remember if their own life or that of others will not benefit from the memory in any meaningful way. Great subject for philosophical speculation :) _"Near-death experiences (NDEs) are reported by about 17% of those who nearly die. NDEs have been reported by children, adults, scientists, physicians, priests, ministers, among the religious and atheists, and from countries throughout the world."_ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172100/
If we WERE just robots interacting with other robots, there would be no need for a justice system, punishment for crime etc as how can you hurt the feelings of a robot? Who of you out there has experienced love or hate? These are real experiences that CANNOT be experienced by a mere robot! Stop believing the BS that we are being brainwashed with by so called experts. We are absolutely amazing creatures in an amazing universe, fearfully and wonderfully made by an extremely intelligent creator who knows more about love than we will ever know!
If we were just robots, a justice system would make sense : a robot would calculate that doing certain actions would result in punishment, which means damage to itself, and would therefore choose not to do that action. But anyway, people that think we are robots are just a branch from a subbranch of materialism, so they are a pretty small minority within materialism. By the way, since the guys in the video told you that all materialists think this way when it's in fact not true, aren't you the one being brainwashed?
03:24 - What's not being said: this procedure actually DOES have some profound influences on how the brain operates. That's not to say there isn't an "I" or a mind affecting the brain, but that the operator can no longer do some of the things the equipment is designed to do because the equipment has been damaged.
Robots made out of meat don't question their existence - and have an intelligent designer. They lack free will. Even if you say robots can make their own decisions, some intelligent being (human) fed them the information required to make that - this includes machine learning and the like.
Brilliant message and content ! …. Love the video edit/cuts graphic etc too . I’ve never seen this message delivered in this edgy and modern video style 🙌🏽
There's more than our body or there's not. The two choices are a bell. I chose to belief that there is something. I'm feeling it deep instead since I was young and Life showered some evident threw some experiences in my life. Spirituality is the base, the main course of my life. I am not here in this body in this life for nothing ! I am not here to make the more money I can and spend it in luxuries, trips, sex etc and then go, turn off the light, it's finished!! Thanks for the great work.
If we have motives that are beyond our control, as Egnor states, isn’t that almost the definition of no freewill? I don’t necessarily believe in determinism, but that’s what it sounds like.
A valid point. Nihilism aside, if we have free will to choose the "right" thing to do, why would we choose anything else? There may be multiple paths, but ultimately we can only choose "right" or suffer the consequences. Who really wants free will?
I cannot have motives to have free will? So I don't have free will if I work towards a desired end I have in mind? So what on earth would it mean to have "free will"?
Great video. Egnor needs to write a book on this stuff given his experience. Re: Libet experiments, "Neural precursors of decisions that matter-an ERP study of deliberate and arbitrary choice" (Maoz 2018) also seems to go against the anti-free will interpretation. Keep it up guys!
Rabbi Mosche Averick- "I have a brain but "I" am not a brain" (citation needed! The last time I looked, if you took someones brain out there was no "I" left). "I feel emotions but "I" am not an emotion" (citation needed. Amongst other things, it would appear "we" are our emotions. If someone is entirely lacking emotion do we consider them truly human? I am a house but not a brick!?? This is a meaningless deepity). The same goes for thought. Citation needed. Even if any of this were true, this would not and cannot tell us anything about the supposed truth. Until there is anything "substantial" on that front it would appear that mind as an emergent property is the best we have. Physically turn off the brain and mind ceases to be (as far as we know). Solid counter evidence welcome.
Materialists---we have made the most sophisticated computer systems through our materialstic views..... . . .brain---- Most sophisticated? Am i joke to you?? 😂😂😂
Even renowned non-theist philosopher Thomas Negal ACKNOWLEDGES that the "mind-body problem" CAN NOT be reduced to mere Materialistic biology & physics. Read his bestseller: Mind & Cosmos - Why The Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception Of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. It's a fascinating read! He received LOTS of PUSH-BACK for daring to speak out against the world-view of Materialism.
Nagel (that's how his name is spelled) also admitted that he became an atheist because he does not want a Judge in Heaven: "I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers... I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God. I don't want the universe to be like that. My guess is that this cosmic authority problem is not a rare condition and that it is responsible for much of the scientism and reductionism of our time. One of the tendencies it supports is the ludicrous overuse of evolutionary biology to explain everything about human life, including everything about the human mind."
But what IS the ready-ness potential? It happens within a second of making/doing a decision so could it be the thought of doing something? the decision to do something but it shows up before we say/do whatever it is because of some sort of internal lag? Could it be morals or sin but if so why would it appear in a situation where there’s no moral outcome?
Yes but who first said the quote about humans being robots made of meat? I remember reading it somewhere, they attributed that to someone as a quote but I forgot who said it. Came to this video hoping they would reference it and name who said it.
Predestination then. If we die that therefore points to a spirit or soul. Otherwise we'd be forever trapped within a decaying/decayed body without a exit point on death. Imagine that finality. So we don't have a mind in our brain.
It is ironic that the "Pro-Life" political movement demands we are nothing but animated meat, "a beating heart". They NEVER say "human being", they say "human". My ear is living and is made human by DNA. But not a "being". Their political campaign is an attempt to make Materialism our official state religion. They demand human beings are nothing which is not described in a high school text.
As another comment noted ,the video failed to address certain points that he noted which are indeed good points. He states that brain tumors do have an affect on peoples personality's , which I believe is an implication that the brain is indeed just a chemical processor which if damaged ,can effect an individuals personality, which is completely true. I don't believe the video made any assertions otherwise. What seems to allude materialists is that these unique characteristics such as emotion (being just one of them) can be an extremely detrimental quality as far as materialist explanations are concerned. Why should we have any of these weaknesses such as humor , love , joy , compassion and many other unique human traits that has strangers risking their lives to save others . It makes no sense in light of the survival of the fittest , which is an indifference to these perceived weaknesses. This simplistic analogy by materialists of explaining all thought and human traits as nothing but simple chemical reactions has as much merit as explaining a Cray Super Computer is just some electrical current.
evolution can explain very well the existence of cooperation behavior. Because we have dna in common with our proximate personne (speacially family) it can be very profitable to save them(and their dna) than us. Little group like a village goes stronger with empathique people that exprime the compassion for their proximate human being, therefore if a village by purely luck has a big amount of compassonate human, he will have a better chance to survive and (if needed) push thought the land of very narcissic group. We have to understand the evolution not only by the scall of 1 by 1 (in this case it's better to be egoist) but also in term of group vs group (wich get people stronger, whealtier but need intelligence and compassion to be really effective) Love by the evolutionist point of view is a necessary tool to make the children grow up in ours species, without it the couple would break and with only 1 individual trying to help the childrens it's gonna be hard for them to survive and humor is important for the choice of the sexual partenaire because human tend to prefere it, so again it's give a advantage in term of reproduction so it's normal that it's pretty common
Robots do not self-assemble. Robots are designed. If we are "robots made out of meat", then we must also be designed. Such approach does not tally with the neo-Darwinian theory that postulate that life self-assembles without the need for a designer. You can't have it both ways.
Yes, from a purely human perspective we have free will, but from a biblical perspective, that is from a theological point of view we do not have any ability to choose to believe on Jesus Christ. We are dead in sin and trespasses and a corpse has no ability to do anything except be dead, no "free will". As is the case in many terms and words, we must define what we mean.
If our cellsare robots, who programmed them in digitally encoded information? Oh. Sorry. I forgot that random number generators can create symbolic programming.
The main problem with concept of free will is: What exactly is free will? If someone makes decisions, it is a decision-making process in his brain. And there is nothing supernatural about it, it can not even be called free will because our brains are doing it for us and we have no choice to reject it, because a choice to do something different would also came to us from inside our brain. However, if free will is something different than that process, the question is: What is the difference? And can we tell the difference, observe it, explain it, or ... we just have to take it on faith (which is not a scientific method)?
Roger Sperry discusses split-brain experiments : 'We are often asked if each of the disconnected hemispheres must not also have a will of its own and if the two do not then get into conflict with each other. In the first half year after surgery, particularly with the first patient, we got reports suggesting something of the kind. For example, while the patient was dressing and trying to pull on his trousers, the left hand started to work against the right, pulling them off again. Or, the left hand, after just helping to tie the belt of his robe, went ahead on its own to untie the completed knot, whereupon the right hand would have to supervene again to get it retied. The patient and his wife used to refer to the "sinister left hand" which sometimes tried to push the wife away aggressively at the same time that the hemisphere of the right hand was trying to get her to come and help him with something. These antagonistic movements of right and left hands are fairly well restricted to situations in which the reactions of left and right hand are easily made from the same common supporting posture of body and shoulders. Generally speaking,there are so many unifying factors in the situation and functional harmony is so strongly built into the undivided brain stem and spinal networks, by express design, that one sees little overt expression or overflow into action, at least, of conflicting will power. 'Note in passing that these disconnection effects do not show up readily in ordinary behavior. They must be demonstrated by the flashing of the visual material fast enough so that eye movements cannot be used to sneak the answers into the wrong hemisphere, or in the testing of right and left hands vision must be excluded with a blindfold, auditory cues eliminated, and the hands kept from crossing, and so on. One of the patients, a 30-year old housewife with two children, goes to market, runs the house, cooks the meals, watches television, and goes out to complete, three-hour shows at the drive-in theater, all without complaining of any particular splitting or doubling in her perceptual experience. Her family believes that she still does not have so much initiative as formerly in her housecleaning, in which she was meticulous, and that her orientation is not so good, for example, she does not find her way back to the car at the drive-in theater as readily as she formerly could. In the early months after surgery there appeared to be definite difficulty with memory. By now, some eight months later, there seems to be much improvement in this regard, though not complete recovery. Involvement of the fornix would have to be ruled out before effects like the latter can be ascribed to the commissurotomy. 'In the visual tests again, one finds plenty of evidence that the minor, dumb, or mute hemisphere really does perceive and comprehend, even though it cannot express verbally what it sees and thinks. It can point out with the left hand16 a matching picture from among many others that have been flashed to the left field, or it can point to a corresponding object that was pictured in the left-field screen. It can also pick out the correct written name of an object that it has seen flashed on the screen, or vice versa. In other words, Gazzaniga's more recent results show that the dumb left hemisphere in the second patient is not exactly stupid or illiterate; it reads a word such as "cup," "fork," or "apple" flashed to the left field and then picks out the corresponding object with the left hand. While the left hand and its hemisphere are thus performing correctly, however, the other hemisphere, again, has no idea at all which object or which picture or which name is the correct one and makes this clear through its verbal as well as other responses. You regularly have to convince the talking hemisphere to keep quiet and to let the left hand go ahead on its own, in which case it will usually pick out the correct answer. 'These minor differences of opinion between the right and left hemispheres are seen rather commonly in testing situations. For example, the left hand is allowed to feel and to manipulate, say, a toothbrush under the table or out of sight behind a screen. Then a series of five to 10 cards are laid out with names on them such as "ring," "key," "fork." When asked, the subject may tell you that what she felt in the left hand was a "ring." However, when instructed to point with the left hand, the speechless hemisphere deliberately ignores the erroneous opinions of its better half and goes ahead independently to point out the correct answer, in this case the card with the word "toothbrush." As far as we can see, about the only avenue remaining for direct communication between mind-right and mind-left is that of extrasensory perception. If any two minds should be able to tune in on each other, one might expect these two to be able to do so, but thus far no evidence of such effects is apparent in the test performances. '...the subject may be blindfolded, and a familiar object such as a pencil, a cigarette, a comb, or a coin is placed in the left hand. Under these conditions, the mute hemisphere connected to the left hand, feeling the object, perceives and appears to know quite well what the object is. It can manipulate it correctly; it can demonstrate how the object is supposed to be used; and it can remember the object and go out and retrieve it with the same hand from among an array of other objects. While all this is going on, the other hemisphere has no conception of what the object is and says so. If pressed for an answer, the speech hemisphere can only resort to the wildest of guesses. So the situation remains just so long as the blindfold is kept in place and other avenues of sensory input from the object to the talking hemisphere are blocked. But let the right hand cross over and touch the test object in the left hand; or let the object itself touch the face or head as in the use of a comb, a cigarette, or glasses; or let the object make some give-away sound, such as the jingle of a key case, then immediately the speech hemisphere produces the correct answer...'
I'm irritated by the corpus collosum argument given here. Because there IS evidence for a single person making 2 different choices that contradict one another in patient's who have had their corpus collosum cut. Also I would like to point out that cutting the right and left hemispheres from one another doesn't cut the brain in half as there are other connections. If you truly cut a person's brain in half they most likely wouldn't survive.
free will means you are free to use your will, lets say you willed to do something but something interfered with that action and made you do something contrary to what you wanted to do, you would know that you were being controlled against your will, but how would you know that if you didn't have free will? Knowing that you were controlled against your will in itself makes you something more then just a robot since robots don't have a will that could understand that it is being controlled against it's will.
There Are So Many Theories Which Interconnect And Intersect And Overlay, Levels Upon Levels, Dimensions Within Dimensions, Perspectives Of Perspectives, Riddled With Riddles And Laden With Languages. Is It Color Coded And Complete In Complexity, Or Simply Simple Perplexity? Does It Point To Point Or Map The Stars? Does It Awaken The Senses Or Fuel The Cars? Can It Light The Darkness, As Lit Candle Wick, Or Bring Warmth To The Cold And Health To The Sick? Could It From Seed Grow A Tree, As Through One Become Three, Beyond The Sights That Physical Eyes Can See? Would It Question An Answer Or Answer A Question; Would It Spark A Debate Or Clarify Suggestion? If Decimaled Decibels Were To Delineate Scale, For Those With Ears To Hear, Can The Music Of The Spheres Sing A Symphony Like A Whale? What Carries Currents To And Fro; Does Time Have A Speed Or A Flow? When Does A Cycle Begin Or Find It's End; Why Does A Flame Flicker In The Wind; Where Does Light Refract On It's Bend; How Can One Both Borrow And Lend; Who Can Both Sever And Mend, Be Both Foe And Friend, Attack And Defend, Arise And Descend, Applaud And Offend, Concur And Commend? Be It As It May, Day Or Night, Fight Or Flight, Wrong Or Right, Key Or Kite, There Is More There Than Barely Brushes The Brow. All That Glitters Isn't Gold, But I'm No Fool. Respectively, There Is Most Certainly A Difference Between Good And Evil, Between True Harmony With Nature And The Intentional Harm Of Another, Between Basic Moral Aptitude And Self-Fulfilling Lawlessness, Between Honest Sincerity Of Heart And Guiltless Guile, Between The Slightest Semblance Of Sanity And A Psychopathic Sadism. Positive Human Emotions And Benevolent Thoughts Are No More Simply Governed Holistically By Chemicals Than Those Same Chemicals Are The Intentions And The Ideas And The Ideologies Of Criminal Mind, Which Differ Somewhat From Motives And Meaning And Purpose. To The Contrary, Most Active Bio-Chemicals Are Catalyzed And Conditioned Responses To Thoughts And Emotions And Conditional Developments, Cyclical Reactions To Recurrent Environmental Stimuli Based Upon Basic Default Inbuilt Subroutines, Which Also Differ Somewhat From Individual To Individual And Which Are Capable Of Being Consciously Customized; The Chemicals Are Not The Originating Cause, The Consciousness, Nor The Seat Of The Soul Itself; They Could More Readily Be Likened To The Vast Chain Of Events Which Occur From The Conception Of A Thought Unto The Fulfillment Of A Promise. Although Those Lines May Blur To Some Over The Course Of Coercive Retribution And Feigned Justice, Conveniently Redefined To Fall Suit With Their Own Tendencies Toward Aggressive And Regressive Self-Aggrandizement. Human Science Still Doesn't Really Understand What A Mind Even Is, Much Less Soulful Consciousness Or A Higher Essense.. There May Be Types Of Intelligent Minds, Which Already Exist, That Our Gigantic 3Lb Biological Human Brains Have Yet To Wrap Their Little Minds Around.. Think About The Shear Magnitude And Complexity Of Nature. Humans Have The Dormant Capacity To Consciously Customize Their Brain Functions And Their Biochemical Reactions, Free Will. True Love, In It's Highest Sense And Meaning, Is Not So Easily And Succinctly Defined By Human Languages; It Is A Complex Action Which Presents In Various Ways Beyond The Scope Of What Could Be Considered Naturally Humanistic Materialism Or Spontaneous Evolutionary Biological Chemistry, Though At Times Presenting Itself In A Natural Fashion Or Sporting Itself In Flesh. It Does However Have Definitive Qualities, Which Present In Relative Measure And Mixture To One Another, Being More Of A Dynamic Scale Or A Qualitative Spectrum Of Composites Than A General Definitional Summation Of Specific Action. If I Were To Attempt An Adequate Definition, Even With A Thousand Words Or A Thousand Books, It Would Surely Fall Short Of It's Actual Expression In Reality And Of It's Principle Essence. C.S. Lewis Provides A Reasonable Exposition Of The Subject In His Book 'The Four Loves', Which I Have Had The Opportunity To Read Portions Of. In Great Brevity And With Significant Overgeneralization, Love, In It's Highest Order And Definition, Is Not Based Upon Reciprocity Or Commonality, Nor Upon Mere Physical Affections Or Passionate Desires, But Rather, In Many Instances, Openly Defies Those Natural Tendencies, Choosing Instead To Willingly Suffer On Behalf Of Another And Their Wellbeing.
We are too human-centric. Conciousness has not been explained. And though cyclical movements of the universe have been tracked...and the origin has been 'guessed' at....well, still....what was at the beginning? What chaos would establish these rules? How could chaos or 'nothing' create a universe of logistical patterns? Has anybody exlpained the logistics of the 'big bang'? How did it begin? Who or what did it, and why? Where does the matter come from? And how does so much come from so little? Nobody knows. Science can find these answers...one day. But faith is what propels us and keeps us honest. Atheists are too egocentric. Faith and science will unite one day when we find out how and why (if there is a why), we, and everything else, were created. Whatever the answer is, it is bigger than anybody can imagine, be you atheist or believer. There's alot of big answers out there waiting to be discovered. And we will need both faith (modesty and belief), and science (rationality and inquiry) to discover them.
Brothers and sister we need to support channels like this. If we just see it and dont forword It to our Facebook our TH-cam send it to friends then we are not doing anything, that's selfish. We must work together and support channels like this and pray for them so God could keep giving knowledge and understanding and that they are guided by the Holyspirirt.
LEVANTATE Y ORA I don’t against any religion, but don’t pretend it is a science channel. Science can’t explain every thing. If science can not explain spiritual thing it is totally fine, but don’t claim that it is science
Amen. We were made in the image of God and have great worth to Him. So much that He came to Earth and died for us upon the cross. That is how much He values us. He did not make us robots who mechanically obey. Instead we have a free will to say Yes or No. We are loved.
I lobe what you guys are doing but maybe present it differently? Many people may find it difficult to take it seriously with the concperecy theme and stuff.
The Law myoho-renge-kyo represents the identity of what some scientists refer to as the ‘unified field of all consciousnesses’. In other words, it’s a sound vibration that is the essence of all of existence and non-existence, the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the true creator of everything that is, ever was and ever will be, right down to the minutest particles of dust, each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves by tapping directly into it by way of self-produced sound vibration. On the subject of ‘Who or What Is God?’, when we compare the concept of ‘God’, as a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to Nichiren’s teachings, the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people call ‘God’ is our enlightenment, which exists nowhere else but within us. When the disciples asked Jesus where the Kingdom of God is, didn’t he tell them that it was within them? Some say that ‘God’ is an entity that can never be seen. I think that the vast amount of information that is constantly being conveyed via electromagnetic waves gives us proof of how an invisible state of ‘God’ could actually exist. It’s widely known that certain data being relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects, including instant global awareness of something or mass emotional reaction. As well as many other things, it’s also common knowledge that these waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to even enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars. However, none of this is possible without a receiver to decode the information that is being transmitted. Without the receiver, the information would remain impotent. In a very similar way, it’s important for us to have our ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our life, all other life and what we and all else that exists truly is. Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach into the core of our enlightenment and switch it on. That’s because the sound vibration of myoho-renge-kyo represents the combination of the three major laws that underlie all existence. Myoho represents the Law of latency and manifestation (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. One state of myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists. This includes our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them, our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re not being expressed, our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma, and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes obvious to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory, whenever we experience or express our emotions, or whenever a good or bad effect manifests from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it simply means that it has come out of the state of ‘myo’ (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s simply the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing something. The second law, renge, governs and controls the functions of myoho, ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect. The two laws of myoho and renge, both functions together simultaneously, as well as underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination, kyo, is what allows the law myoho to be able to integrate with the law renge. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects together all Life and matter, as well as the past, present and future. It is often termed the Universal Law of Communication. Perhaps it could even be compared to the string theory that some scientists now suspect exists. Just as our body cells, thoughts, feelings and all else are constantly fluctuating within us, everything in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux, in accordance with these three laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible for us to calculate or describe. And it doesn't matter how big or small, important or trivial that anything may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of myoho-renge-kyo. These three laws are also the basis of the four fundamental forces and if they didn't function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. Simply put, all forms of existence, including the seasons, day and night, birth, death and so on, are all moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation, rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two universal states of myo and ho in absolute accordance with renge and by way of kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn in accordance with the workings of what the combination myoho-renge-kyo represents. Nam, or Namu, on the other hand, is a password or a key; it allows us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with myoho-renge-kyo. On a more personal basis, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives from moment to moment, as well in our environment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is turning, and rhythmically chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for a minimum of ten minutes daily, anyone can experience actual proof of its positive effects in their life. In so doing, we can pierce through even the thickest layers of our karma and activate our Buddha Nature (the enlightened state). We’re then able to summon forth the wisdom needed to challenge, overcome and change our negative circumstances into positive ones. It brings forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that is preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we truly are, regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexual preference. We are also able to see and understand our circumstances and an environment more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. Actual proof soon becomes apparent to anyone who chants the words Nam-myoho-renge-kyo on a regular daily basis. Everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect, so the strength of the result from chanting depends on dedication, sincerity and determination. To explain it more simply, the difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, or producing a song and so on. NB: There are frightening, disturbing sounds and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It's the emotional result from any sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day you are producing a sound vibration that is the password to your true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things, such as your fears and desires etc. The important way to get the best result when chanting is not to see things in a conventional way (difficult to achieve but can be done), rather than reaching out to an external source, you need to reach into your own life and bring your needs and desires to fruition from within, including any help that you may need. Think of it as a seed within you that you are bringing sunshine and water to in order for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s important to understand that everything that we need in life, all the answers and potential to achieve our dreams, already exist within us. th-cam.com/video/6CZ0XJqWRr4/w-d-xo.html OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN sings about Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
He always going to back and stop the time and enter a new unlock who work 24 hour and he always found front and back who caled 1 this is gravity of 100
The video talks about the “Who am I?” question, and admits right off the start that this is just a question of feeling. We know feelings are often wrong. Doesn’t matter what someone feels. And ahead of time, before watching more, I’ll just remind you that who we are change because of physical chemical stimuli of the brain. You can suffer brain damage and have your memories wiped and change your entire personality drastically. I have one in my family who had her entire personality changed because of physical brain alteration. The video says that thoughts can alter the brain. Okay. But you gotta demonstrate that thoughts are _immaterial_ then. I’m sure thoughts can change the physical body to some extent. That’s what placebo is. But I’m not aware that thoughts are immaterial. “This clearly supports mind over matter” You still have to make the case that mind is _not_ matter, and that’s what you’re arguing. That’s what you gotta present evidence for ... not merely assert that thought are immaterial and grab on to that and run with it. What’s the case for that? I’m sure that thoughts can change the body somewhat. What’s the nature of thoughts? On the split brain. V. S. Ramachandran and others have done experiments with split brain patients too, and they say taht they have fund that there _is_ a difference. Ramachandran often speaks of the famous case where the two brain halves had a clear distinct personality each, where one was a theist and the other was an atheist. How’s that for “they seem fine”? And again. Listen to what Egnor says, two times even; they _seem_ fine. He isn’t describing any testing or observation or actual science. This is just how it seems. I don’t care what it seems like; I care what it is. And a body having two half brains separated, where only one of them controls speech, then it might _seem_ fine ... until you put a pen in the hands of them and allow the other half to write out in text what it thinks too. And these experiments have been done. To greater depth than “this seems like...”. And as I said ahead of time; we already have TONS of cases where physically altering the brain clearly does affect personality, memory, mood, even morality; heck; if we put enough alcohol in you, which is a chemical, and we alter your body and your brain chemically, then I think we all know that your morals are going to be altered a bit for the time, and you’re going to do some things that you wouldn’t otherwise do. Mood, ability to reason, consciousness, memory, personality; we already know that all of these _can_ be changed with some physical or chemical alteration of the brain. You can’t throw all that clear evidence in the bin, because one neuroscientist says that all _seems_ fine in this case. “No matter what he did to the brain, he couldn’t alter it” No matter what he did? Did he throw the person out in front of a bus?!?!? We already know, as I said, that some alteration of the brain _can_ and _does_ alter personality. That’s not up for debate. And now you’re bringing someone who did X Y and Z to the brain, and nothing happened. I don’t care. It’s a red herring. He might as well have said “I opened the skull and I tickled the brain with a feather, and that didn’t do anything.” I don’t care what he did which didn’t do anything. I care about the tons of cases we already know of that alters a person’s brain. He is a scientist! He is bound by ethics. Of course he isn’t going to do _literally whatever_ to a brain, like smashing it with a hammer and seeing what happens. “But he couldn’t change their consciousness” I can. Your consciousness switches off when you drink too much alcohol. Then you’re in the state where you’re no longer aware/conscious. You’re still awake, and you dance talk drink, etc. But your consciousness and awareness is switched off, and you don’t know what you’re doing in the moment, and you won’t remember a thing the next day. Consciousness _is_ affected by mere physical chemical stimulation of the brain. “He couldn’t change their intellect”. I can. Quite simply, actually. Take off their clothes and put them in extreme cold temperatures. That experiment has been done tons of times too, often to study what happens to the body, but the mind was tested too, and one of the things that happen is that you can’t even do simple math. I watched the experiment where he was asked to answer 80 minus 9. He took his time to find the answer. And then he was asked; that result minus 9. And he gave up. “He couldn’t change their sense of self”. V. S. Ramachandran oddly enough could when he performed the splitting of the brain, and he had one person who had one self, but ended up after the operation with one person with two selves, one a theist and the other an atheist. I have no comments on free will at the end of this. But it is interesting that the video accuses others of ignoring this data ... when they have clearly ignored the _TONS_ of cases we already know of where people have had brain altering illnesses or accidents and they have come out with completely altered personalities and memories. Apparently, you have had to ignore that too - whether or not the 'free won't experiment' is ignored.
Split Brain competition going on with one hand eager to correct the other, even pushing the other hand away while solving the puzzle. See video: th-cam.com/video/0lmfxQ-HK7Y/w-d-xo.htmlm42s
In other words, programming since birth. We are what we are influenced with. Our parents, teachers, television, radio, music, friends, acquaintances, politics, news, economics, religion, history, etc. Always ask the question about anything...Why? Why is a powerful word and can get too the root of the real answer. And in doing that, you'll enter a new paradigm of thought.
Good heavens have you just realised this! I am a soul the body is my vehicle, same for every body! I am light, I am love, I am peace. I use my body to express myself. Knowing this I can steer this chariot, with the guidance of the Supreme Soul, God, to experience my true qualities of peace, love, joy, etc., and take on board powers of determination, power to overcome all obstacles, power to face etc., So that I can again become who I really am. Best wishes from a bk.
I don't agree with the materialist word view, but this video doesn't do much to discredit that world view. It just communicates that you oppose materialism.
So we cant say we havent made any discovery in 21st century....we have actually acheived something great...and that is we have finally mixed materialism with the materials......this means we have actually buried it 6 feet under the ground....😂😂😂😂😂😂......materialism meets the materials...lolz
Despite 100 years of US gov't schools indoctrinating Materialist Atheism, I find that the majority of people in daily life have noticed the complex, majestic design of nature and appreciate that there must be a designer.
I think that out of body experiences are an indication that consciousness is not in our bodies. How can you perceived your own body from another point of view?. Its that even logical?.
We need to be balanced and open-minded here (pardon the pun). On the one hand, it's true that materialism has problems explaining consciousness and everything related to our subjective experience of existence. But, on the other hand, dualism has all the problems identified with Descartes's philosophy, including: 1. What is the nature of the mind and where does it reside? 2. Where do mind and brain meet and interact (Descartes said in the pineal gland, which we now know is just silly)? 3. What happens to the mind when the (material) brain is destroyed? None of us knows the answer and we all need to retain a modicum of modesty
Materialism and Descartes positions aren't the only possibilities. There are other interactive substance dualist positions and idealist positions and other possibilities. 1. What do you mean by "nature" of mind? Material things have locations, including our bodies and brains. But I'm not sure our selves do. When we play a multiplayer game, our character we control is part of the video game environment and you see from the perspective of your character. But you aren't within the game. 2. I have no idea. But why is not knowing problematic? Interaction contravenes some law or principle like conservation of energy? Well, it would have to contravene *some* law since current science leaves out consciousness completely in its description of reality (unless you're a materialist). 3. Who knows. I think the self survives and goes elsewhere and might eventually get reincarnated again.
If a memory was illecited by direct brain stimulation, the actual person had to make the decision to convey that memory. They could have chosen to lie about what they saw.
this is fine, so far as it goes. But I have never taken it seriously for a minute - why should a philosophy that actually excludes Meaning from human existence by insistence on 'Matter IS All There Is', be taken seriously? The matter is hiding the meaning in the electrons? The atoms? The molecules? Come on - take yourself seriously enough to see past the meat robot, and I will take you more seriously
We are souls with bodies, not bodies with souls.
If someone were to hurt Sam Harris’ family, would he be OK with letting the perpetrator be on his way, since he has no control over his actions? Furthermore, where does Sam Harris get off trying to tell people what to think, since by his own admission, he’s never had an original thought in his life?
Free will is a God given right! We all have a conscience that we are born with, not learned.
I have a brain but "I" am not a brain.
I feel emotions but "I" am not an emotion.
I think thoughts but "I am not a thought
Where does the immaterial consciousness go when we sleep?
What are semi-conscious states?
Free will exists
The most important part of this video starts at 4:10 minute mark and culminates in what he's saying about free will being " free wont ". It might take some time to grasp this as it did for me but when you do it is amazing.
Yes, same for me. I think this made something click for me. It's like an exercise in self acceptance. The thing that I want to do - knowing that inside myself I've already decided to do it. And to not do it, I have to choose not to.
Sometimes just hearing something you already know to be true explained in a differing way just makes it click
Why do we have consciousness at all? Why aren't we just pre-programmed robots carrying out actions with no sense of consciousness? There seems to be something more going on than mere materialism.
Interesting discussion.
Free will comes at a price. 🧠
It's also interesting that materialists go into quantum physics for answers yet also quantum physics has a basis on an immaterial reality, you can't have both. Our minds are amazing, and just out of this world.
Love the profile pic that you chose - I have not played that game in a long, long time.
Lukey Agreed. I’m guessing you believe in God then?:)
End of the video and I'm thinking, "Could you imagine if everyone the world round applied the doctrine of The Sermon On The Mount and The Ten Commandments without putting a religious label on it?" If people ever wanted to break and destroy the very systems that enslave us and not be screaming in the streets with the wrong definition of the word "protest", that would be the way to do it.
Second year neuroscience student here, definitely not an expert so take this with a grain of salt maybe.
I reckon the video does a good job of convincing people to go against the materialist viewpoint but I don’t think it is really informative. Like they say themselves materialism is a philosophy but so is the opposite. Neither side to my knowledge has fully been proven nor has either been fully disproven.
What I find strange is that they define eliminate materialism but then continue to argue against all materialism. Eliminative materialism is extreme in thinking that the mind as a concept does not exist. Commonly materialists do believe there is a mind and a self but just believe that those arise from the brain structure.
The evidence that they deliver also has some issues in my opinion. The man who trains people to deal with their OCD is presented as if this is proof that materialists are wrong when in essence it doesn’t go against the idea of materialism at all. If you consider that a materialist will believe that there is no free will because we are influenced by our surroundings. Training someone is influencing their surroundings by offering new/different information which could change their brain for the better. In essence this is no different from telling a child who really wants to touch hair straighteners that they are hot and that it will burn them so they learn to not touch it.
A second (and in my opinion most alarming) piece of evidence I have an issue with is their claim that a person will be fine and still be a unitary person instead of spitting into two people after having their corpus callosum severed. In reality this is known to cause split brain syndrome which is literally like the two halves of you body sometimes acting like two people. E.g. the right hemisphere will feel like eating a mars bar so the left hand reaches for one but the left hemisphere wants to be healthy and makes the right hand hit it out of the left hand. The fact that they ignore this is very funny as they claim that materialists ignore evidence that doesn’t support their viewpoint as they are literally doing it themselves. The neurologist in the video should really know about split brain syndrome it’s literally one of the most basic neuroscience fun facts for school kids out there.
As for the readiness potential and Free Won’t I haven’t read the paper and don’t feel like I know enough about it to really say anything worthwhile so I will give it to them that might be actual evidence. However, as they say themselves in the video this doesn’t fully disproves materialism so meh.
So my final verdict: the video is heavily dramatised and might convince someone who doesn’t know anything about the brain but anyone whose research goes as far as to simply just read a Wikipedia page or two on various neuroscientific philosophies will know that there is no conclusive answer and it is wrong to present your evidence as if it is conclusive. So all in all quite poorly made on the actual science aspect.
If you want more people to listen to you - why don't you do it again, but with no background noise. I shut it down after a minute or so.
Awesome stuff!
I took a dump. But I am not a dump.
Brilliant! Thank you guys for making this episode a tiny bit longer :) Please keep up the great work. Near death experiences may not be empirical proof of the independence of mind from matter, but many report conscious perception for extended periods after their brains have stopped showing any activity at all, and before they are resuscitated. This may be subjective evidence, but can we really assume all who have gone through an NDE to be deluded, or just straight up lying?
I've heard some fascinating accounts of these, as well. Accounts that seem to be solidly confirmed. But I still haven't yet decided what to make of this though...
@@LoveYourNeighbour. Same here. The percentage of people who report such experiences is rather small, but not insignificant. The majority have reported no such experiences at all though. Perhaps it's something like a psychedelic experience, which reveals to you the secrets of the universe while high, but then slowly deconstructs and fades from memory like a dream as it wears off. Many a time I've woken up with no detailed or specific memory of having any dream, but I know that I was dreaming because of some faint but lingering feelings. Maybe the majority don't need to remember if their own life or that of others will not benefit from the memory in any meaningful way. Great subject for philosophical speculation :)
_"Near-death experiences (NDEs) are reported by about 17% of those who nearly die. NDEs have been reported by children, adults, scientists, physicians, priests, ministers, among the religious and atheists, and from countries throughout the world."_
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172100/
Body, mind, personality traits.
Great video!
If robots have not evolved from iron than how can we evolve from organic matter
In Bhagvadgita , there's whole chapters on atma ( soul )
🔴Can someone tell me how the last experiment disprove materialism?
If we WERE just robots interacting with other robots, there would be no need for a justice system, punishment for crime etc as how can you hurt the feelings of a robot? Who of you out there has experienced love or hate? These are real experiences that CANNOT be experienced by a mere robot! Stop believing the BS that we are being brainwashed with by so called experts. We are absolutely amazing creatures in an amazing universe, fearfully and wonderfully made by an extremely intelligent creator who knows more about love than we will ever know!
If we were just robots, a justice system would make sense : a robot would calculate that doing certain actions would result in punishment, which means damage to itself, and would therefore choose not to do that action.
But anyway, people that think we are robots are just a branch from a subbranch of materialism, so they are a pretty small minority within materialism.
By the way, since the guys in the video told you that all materialists think this way when it's in fact not true, aren't you the one being brainwashed?
Keep up the good work!
I'd love to see BERNARDO KASTRUP in a future series of this channel. .... The guy has 2 PHd's and totally debunks materialism
03:24 - What's not being said: this procedure actually DOES have some profound influences on how the brain operates. That's not to say there isn't an "I" or a mind affecting the brain, but that the operator can no longer do some of the things the equipment is designed to do because the equipment has been damaged.
Excellent videos. Thank you for your work.
Robots made out of meat don't question their existence - and have an intelligent designer. They lack free will. Even if you say robots can make their own decisions, some intelligent being (human) fed them the information required to make that - this includes machine learning and the like.
If Egnor is a human brain expert, then I'm Santa Claus
Brilliant message and content ! …. Love the video edit/cuts graphic etc too . I’ve never seen this message delivered in this edgy and modern video style 🙌🏽
There's more than our body or there's not. The two choices are a bell.
I chose to belief that there is something.
I'm feeling it deep instead since I was young and Life showered some evident threw some experiences in my life.
Spirituality is the base, the main course of my life.
I am not here in this body in this life for nothing !
I am not here to make the more money I can and spend it in luxuries, trips, sex etc and then go, turn off the light, it's finished!!
Thanks for the great work.
If we have motives that are beyond our control, as Egnor states, isn’t that almost the definition of no freewill?
I don’t necessarily believe in determinism, but that’s what it sounds like.
A valid point. Nihilism aside, if we have free will to choose the "right" thing to do, why would we choose anything else? There may be multiple paths, but ultimately we can only choose "right" or suffer the consequences. Who really wants free will?
I cannot have motives to have free will? So I don't have free will if I work towards a desired end I have in mind? So what on earth would it mean to have "free will"?
Great video. Egnor needs to write a book on this stuff given his experience. Re: Libet experiments, "Neural precursors of decisions that matter-an ERP study of deliberate and arbitrary choice" (Maoz 2018) also seems to go against the anti-free will interpretation. Keep it up guys!
If free will is an illusion, then the thought that free will is an illusion is also an illusion.
I would like more information on the split brain phenomena. I thought experiments showed that you had two wills, one vocal and one mute.
Rabbi Mosche Averick- "I have a brain but "I" am not a brain" (citation needed! The last time I looked, if you took someones brain out there was no "I" left).
"I feel emotions but "I" am not an emotion" (citation needed. Amongst other things, it would appear "we" are our emotions. If someone is entirely lacking emotion do we consider them truly human? I am a house but not a brick!?? This is a meaningless deepity).
The same goes for thought. Citation needed. Even if any of this were true, this would not and cannot tell us anything about the supposed truth. Until there is anything "substantial" on that front it would appear that mind as an emergent property is the best we have. Physically turn off the brain and mind ceases to be (as far as we know). Solid counter evidence welcome.
How do different meats digest into human proteins?
Materialists---we have made the most sophisticated computer systems through our materialstic views.....
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.brain---- Most sophisticated? Am i joke to you?? 😂😂😂
Even renowned non-theist philosopher Thomas Negal ACKNOWLEDGES that the "mind-body problem" CAN NOT be reduced to mere Materialistic biology & physics. Read his bestseller: Mind & Cosmos - Why The Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception Of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. It's a fascinating read! He received LOTS of PUSH-BACK for daring to speak out against the world-view of Materialism.
Thanks! I will read it
Nagel (that's how his name is spelled) also admitted that he became an atheist because he does not want a Judge in Heaven:
"I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers...
I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God. I don't want the universe to be like that. My guess is that this cosmic authority problem is not a rare condition and that it is responsible for much of the scientism and reductionism of our time. One of the tendencies it supports is the ludicrous overuse of evolutionary biology to explain everything about human life, including everything about the human mind."
But what IS the ready-ness potential? It happens within a second of making/doing a decision so could it be the thought of doing something? the decision to do something but it shows up before we say/do whatever it is because of some sort of internal lag? Could it be morals or sin but if so why would it appear in a situation where there’s no moral outcome?
'free won't'. I WILL choose to ignore that, but then choose to accept it and cherish it.
Yes but who first said the quote about humans being robots made of meat? I remember reading it somewhere, they attributed that to someone as a quote but I forgot who said it. Came to this video hoping they would reference it and name who said it.
Predestination then. If we die that therefore points to a spirit or soul.
Otherwise we'd be forever trapped within a decaying/decayed body without a exit point on death.
Imagine that finality.
So we don't have a mind in our brain.
Wow , speechless honestly! I thought i was the only one who is very frustrated by the materialists opinions about how The World works!
Materialists believe they have no mind...and continue to prove it by making stupid arguments.
So they are right in their own way
It is ironic that the "Pro-Life" political movement demands we are nothing but animated meat, "a beating heart". They NEVER say "human being", they say "human". My ear is living and is made human by DNA. But not a "being".
Their political campaign is an attempt to make Materialism our official state religion. They demand human beings are nothing which is not described in a high school text.
If you interject and ask the person to not do something did you really have any intention of performing the original act in the first place?
These videos are awesome and amazing!!
Good content, but the editing is distracting and disturbing.
What a needed message. Thank you,
"Free won't." -- classic.
thanks
If we think, have free will, we are supernatural beings.
As another comment noted ,the video failed to address certain points that he noted which
are indeed good points.
He states that brain tumors do have an affect on peoples personality's , which I believe is
an implication that the brain is indeed just a chemical processor which if damaged ,can
effect an individuals personality, which is completely true.
I don't believe the video made any assertions otherwise.
What seems to allude materialists is that these unique characteristics such as emotion
(being just one of them) can be an extremely detrimental quality as far as materialist
explanations are concerned.
Why should we have any of these weaknesses such as humor , love , joy , compassion and
many other unique human traits that has strangers risking their lives to save others .
It makes no sense in light of the survival of the fittest , which is an indifference to these
perceived weaknesses.
This simplistic analogy by materialists of explaining all thought and human traits as nothing but simple chemical reactions has as much merit as explaining a Cray
Super Computer is just some electrical current.
evolution can explain very well the existence of cooperation behavior. Because we have dna in common with our proximate personne (speacially family) it can be very profitable to save them(and their dna) than us. Little group like a village goes stronger with empathique people that exprime the compassion for their proximate human being, therefore if a village by purely luck has a big amount of compassonate human, he will have a better chance to survive and (if needed) push thought the land of very narcissic group. We have to understand the evolution not only by the scall of 1 by 1 (in this case it's better to be egoist) but also in term of group vs group (wich get people stronger, whealtier but need intelligence and compassion to be really effective)
Love by the evolutionist point of view is a necessary tool to make the children grow up in ours species, without it the couple would break and with only 1 individual trying to help the childrens it's gonna be hard for them to survive
and humor is important for the choice of the sexual partenaire because human tend to prefere it, so again it's give a advantage in term of reproduction so it's normal that it's pretty common
We are spirit, we have a soul and we have or live in a body.
our proof is in our collective action as unworldly lovers of one-another & our 'enemies'...
God breathed into Adam's mouth and Adam became a living soul.
Robots do not self-assemble. Robots are designed. If we are "robots made out of meat", then we must also be designed. Such approach does not tally with the neo-Darwinian theory that postulate that life self-assembles without the need for a designer. You can't have it both ways.
Yes, from a purely human perspective we have free will, but from a biblical perspective, that is from a theological point of view we do not have any ability to choose to believe on Jesus Christ. We are dead in sin and trespasses and a corpse has no ability to do anything except be dead, no "free will". As is the case in many terms and words, we must define what we mean.
It's about time they start telling the truth.
If our cellsare robots, who programmed them in digitally encoded information?
Oh. Sorry. I forgot that random number generators can create symbolic programming.
The only sure thing I know is nobody really know.
5:56 was that Logan paul?
If we are robots made of meat then... are we robots that built ourselves and even more advanced than robots we can build?
The main problem with concept of free will is: What exactly is free will?
If someone makes decisions, it is a decision-making process in his brain. And there is nothing supernatural about it, it can not even be called free will because our brains are doing it for us and we have no choice to reject it, because a choice to do something different would also came to us from inside our brain.
However, if free will is something different than that process, the question is: What is the difference? And can we tell the difference, observe it, explain it, or ... we just have to take it on faith (which is not a scientific method)?
Roger Sperry discusses split-brain experiments :
'We are often asked if each of the disconnected hemispheres must not also have a will of its own and if the two do not then get into conflict with each other. In the first half year after surgery, particularly with the first patient, we got reports suggesting something of the kind. For example, while the patient was dressing and trying to pull on his trousers, the left hand started to work against the right, pulling them off again. Or, the left hand, after just helping to tie the belt of his robe, went ahead on its own to untie the completed knot, whereupon the right hand would have to supervene again to get it retied. The patient and his wife used to refer to the "sinister left hand" which sometimes tried to push the wife away aggressively at the same time that the hemisphere of the right hand was trying to get her to come and help him with something. These antagonistic movements of right and left hands are fairly well restricted to situations in which the reactions of left and right hand are easily made from the same common supporting posture of body and shoulders. Generally speaking,there are so many unifying factors in the situation and functional harmony is so strongly built into the undivided brain stem and spinal networks, by express design, that one sees little overt expression or overflow into action, at least, of conflicting will power.
'Note in passing that these disconnection effects do not show up readily in ordinary behavior. They must be demonstrated by the flashing of the visual material fast enough so that eye movements cannot be used to sneak the answers into the wrong hemisphere, or in the testing of right and left hands vision must be excluded with a blindfold, auditory cues eliminated, and the hands kept from crossing, and so on. One of the patients, a 30-year old housewife with two children, goes to market, runs the house, cooks the meals, watches television, and goes out to complete, three-hour shows at the drive-in theater, all without complaining of any particular splitting or doubling in her perceptual experience. Her family believes that she still does not have so much initiative as formerly in her housecleaning, in which she was meticulous, and that her orientation is not so good, for example, she does not find her way back to the car at the drive-in theater as readily as she formerly could. In the early months after surgery there appeared to be definite difficulty with memory. By now, some eight months later, there seems to be much improvement in this regard, though not complete recovery. Involvement of the fornix would have to be ruled out before effects like the latter can be ascribed to the commissurotomy.
'In the visual tests again, one finds plenty of evidence that the minor, dumb, or mute hemisphere really does perceive and comprehend, even though it cannot express verbally what it sees and thinks. It can point out with the left hand16 a matching picture from among many others that have been flashed to the left field, or it can point to a corresponding object that was pictured in the left-field screen. It can also pick out the correct written name of an object that it has seen flashed on the screen, or vice versa. In other words, Gazzaniga's more recent results show that the dumb left hemisphere in the second patient is not exactly stupid or illiterate; it reads a word such as "cup," "fork," or "apple" flashed to the left field and then picks out the corresponding object with the left hand. While the left hand and its hemisphere are thus performing correctly, however, the other hemisphere, again, has no idea at all which object or which picture or which name is the correct one and makes this clear through its verbal as well as other responses. You regularly have to convince the talking hemisphere to keep quiet and to let the left hand go ahead on its own, in which case it will usually pick out the correct answer.
'These minor differences of opinion between the right and left hemispheres are seen rather commonly in testing situations. For example, the left hand is allowed to feel and to manipulate, say, a toothbrush under the table or out of sight behind a screen. Then a series of five to 10 cards are laid out with names on them such as "ring," "key," "fork." When asked, the subject may tell you that what she felt in the left hand was a "ring." However, when instructed to point with the left hand, the speechless hemisphere deliberately ignores the erroneous opinions of its better half and goes ahead independently to point out the correct answer, in this case the card with the word "toothbrush." As far as we can see, about the only avenue remaining for direct communication between mind-right and mind-left is that of extrasensory perception. If any two minds should be able to tune in on each other, one might expect these two to be able to do so, but thus far no evidence of such effects is apparent in the test performances.
'...the subject may be blindfolded, and a familiar object such as a pencil, a cigarette, a comb, or a coin is placed in the left hand. Under these conditions, the mute hemisphere connected to the left hand, feeling the object, perceives and appears to know quite well what the object is. It can manipulate it correctly; it can demonstrate how the object is supposed to be used; and it can remember the object and go out and retrieve it with the same hand from among an array of other objects. While all this is going on, the other hemisphere has no conception of what the object is and says so. If pressed for an answer, the speech hemisphere can only resort to the wildest of guesses. So the situation remains just so long as the blindfold is kept in place and other avenues of sensory input from the object to the talking hemisphere are blocked. But let the right hand cross over and touch the test object in the left hand; or let the object itself touch the face or head as in the use of a comb, a cigarette, or glasses; or let the object make some give-away sound, such as the jingle of a key case, then immediately the speech hemisphere produces the correct answer...'
I'm irritated by the corpus collosum argument given here. Because there IS evidence for a single person making 2 different choices that contradict one another in patient's who have had their corpus collosum cut. Also I would like to point out that cutting the right and left hemispheres from one another doesn't cut the brain in half as there are other connections. If you truly cut a person's brain in half they most likely wouldn't survive.
free will means you are free to use your will, lets say you willed to do something but something interfered with that action and made you do something contrary to what you wanted to do, you would know that you were being controlled against your will, but how would you know that if you didn't have free will? Knowing that you were controlled against your will in itself makes you something more then just a robot since robots don't have a will that could understand that it is being controlled against it's will.
There Are So Many Theories Which Interconnect And Intersect And Overlay, Levels Upon Levels, Dimensions Within Dimensions, Perspectives Of Perspectives, Riddled With Riddles And Laden With Languages. Is It Color Coded And Complete In Complexity, Or Simply Simple Perplexity? Does It Point To Point Or Map The Stars? Does It Awaken The Senses Or Fuel The Cars? Can It Light The Darkness, As Lit Candle Wick, Or Bring Warmth To The Cold And Health To The Sick? Could It From Seed Grow A Tree, As Through One Become Three, Beyond The Sights That Physical Eyes Can See? Would It Question An Answer Or Answer A Question; Would It Spark A Debate Or Clarify Suggestion? If Decimaled Decibels Were To Delineate Scale, For Those With Ears To Hear, Can The Music Of The Spheres Sing A Symphony Like A Whale? What Carries Currents To And Fro; Does Time Have A Speed Or A Flow? When Does A Cycle Begin Or Find It's End; Why Does A Flame Flicker In The Wind; Where Does Light Refract On It's Bend; How Can One Both Borrow And Lend; Who Can Both Sever And Mend, Be Both Foe And Friend, Attack And Defend, Arise And Descend, Applaud And Offend, Concur And Commend?
Be It As It May, Day Or Night, Fight Or Flight, Wrong Or Right, Key Or Kite, There Is More There Than Barely Brushes The Brow.
All That Glitters Isn't Gold, But I'm No Fool.
Respectively, There Is Most Certainly A Difference Between Good And Evil, Between True Harmony With Nature And The Intentional Harm Of Another, Between Basic Moral Aptitude And Self-Fulfilling Lawlessness, Between Honest Sincerity Of Heart And Guiltless Guile, Between The Slightest Semblance Of Sanity And A Psychopathic Sadism.
Positive Human Emotions And Benevolent Thoughts Are No More Simply Governed Holistically By Chemicals Than Those Same Chemicals Are The Intentions And The Ideas And The Ideologies Of Criminal Mind, Which Differ Somewhat From Motives And Meaning And Purpose. To The Contrary, Most Active Bio-Chemicals Are Catalyzed And Conditioned Responses To Thoughts And Emotions And Conditional Developments, Cyclical Reactions To Recurrent Environmental Stimuli Based Upon Basic Default Inbuilt Subroutines, Which Also Differ Somewhat From Individual To Individual And Which Are Capable Of Being Consciously Customized; The Chemicals Are Not The Originating Cause, The Consciousness, Nor The Seat Of The Soul Itself; They Could More Readily Be Likened To The Vast Chain Of Events Which Occur From The Conception Of A Thought Unto The Fulfillment Of A Promise. Although Those Lines May Blur To Some Over The Course Of Coercive Retribution And Feigned Justice, Conveniently Redefined To Fall Suit With Their Own Tendencies Toward Aggressive And Regressive Self-Aggrandizement.
Human Science Still Doesn't Really Understand What A Mind Even Is, Much Less Soulful Consciousness Or A Higher Essense..
There May Be Types Of Intelligent Minds, Which Already Exist, That Our Gigantic 3Lb Biological Human Brains Have Yet To Wrap Their Little Minds Around..
Think About The Shear Magnitude And Complexity Of Nature.
Humans Have The Dormant Capacity To Consciously Customize Their Brain Functions And Their Biochemical Reactions, Free Will.
True Love, In It's Highest Sense And Meaning, Is Not So Easily And Succinctly Defined By Human Languages; It Is A Complex Action Which Presents In Various Ways Beyond The Scope Of What Could Be Considered Naturally Humanistic Materialism Or Spontaneous Evolutionary Biological Chemistry, Though At Times Presenting Itself In A Natural Fashion Or Sporting Itself In Flesh. It Does However Have Definitive Qualities, Which Present In Relative Measure And Mixture To One Another, Being More Of A Dynamic Scale Or A Qualitative Spectrum Of Composites Than A General Definitional Summation Of Specific Action.
If I Were To Attempt An Adequate Definition, Even With A Thousand Words Or A Thousand Books, It Would Surely Fall Short Of It's Actual Expression In Reality And Of It's Principle Essence.
C.S. Lewis Provides A Reasonable Exposition Of The Subject In His Book 'The Four Loves', Which I Have Had The Opportunity To Read Portions Of.
In Great Brevity And With Significant Overgeneralization, Love, In It's Highest Order And Definition, Is Not Based Upon Reciprocity Or Commonality, Nor Upon Mere Physical Affections Or Passionate Desires, But Rather, In Many Instances, Openly Defies Those Natural Tendencies, Choosing Instead To Willingly Suffer On Behalf Of Another And Their Wellbeing.
We are too human-centric. Conciousness has not been explained. And though cyclical movements of the universe have been tracked...and the origin has been 'guessed' at....well, still....what was at the beginning? What chaos would establish these rules? How could chaos or 'nothing' create a universe of logistical patterns? Has anybody exlpained the logistics of the 'big bang'? How did it begin? Who or what did it, and why? Where does the matter come from? And how does so much come from so little? Nobody knows. Science can find these answers...one day. But faith is what propels us and keeps us honest. Atheists are too egocentric. Faith and science will unite one day when we find out how and why (if there is a why), we, and everything else, were created. Whatever the answer is, it is bigger than anybody can imagine, be you atheist or believer. There's alot of big answers out there waiting to be discovered. And we will need both faith (modesty and belief), and science (rationality and inquiry) to discover them.
I’m a meat puppet, not a robot. And what does freeing Willy have to do with it...
it's not mind over matter. It's the brain influencing the brain.
The brain, the physical dimension is not solid, but Energy vibrating at a slower frequency than mind and Spirit.
Brothers and sister we need to support channels like this. If we just see it and dont forword It to our Facebook our TH-cam send it to friends then we are not doing anything, that's selfish. We must work together and support channels like this and pray for them so God could keep giving knowledge and understanding and that they are guided by the Holyspirirt.
LEVANTATE Y ORA I don’t against any religion, but don’t pretend it is a science channel. Science can’t explain every thing. If science can not explain spiritual thing it is totally fine, but don’t claim that it is science
Dennet is a robot saying you are another robot... yeah.. whats next..
"choices you make can change how your brain works ."
What about Alzheimer’s where the person loses all sense of self?
It's called brain plasticity, and it has been proven. Changing neuro patterns by taking thoughts captive.
Beautiful
Amen. We were made in the image of God and have great worth to Him. So much that He came to Earth and died for us upon the cross. That is how much He values us. He did not make us robots who mechanically obey. Instead we have a free will to say Yes or No. We are loved.
Please make German subtitles.
I lobe what you guys are doing but maybe present it differently? Many people may find it difficult to take it seriously with the concperecy theme and stuff.
The Law myoho-renge-kyo represents the identity of what some scientists refer to as the ‘unified field of all consciousnesses’. In other words, it’s a sound vibration that is the essence of all of existence and non-existence, the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the true creator of everything that is, ever was and ever will be, right down to the minutest particles of dust, each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves by tapping directly into it by way of self-produced sound vibration.
On the subject of ‘Who or What Is God?’, when we compare the concept of ‘God’, as a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to Nichiren’s teachings, the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people call ‘God’ is our enlightenment, which exists nowhere else but within us.
When the disciples asked Jesus where the Kingdom of God is, didn’t he tell them that it was within them?
Some say that ‘God’ is an entity that can never be seen. I think that the vast amount of information that is constantly being conveyed via electromagnetic waves gives us proof of how an invisible state of ‘God’ could actually exist. It’s widely known that certain data being relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects, including instant global awareness of something or mass emotional reaction. As well as many other things, it’s also common knowledge that these waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to even enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars. However, none of this is possible without a receiver to decode the information that is being transmitted. Without the receiver, the information would remain impotent.
In a very similar way, it’s important for us to have our ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our life, all other life and what we and all else that exists truly is. Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach into the core of our enlightenment and switch it on. That’s because the sound vibration of myoho-renge-kyo represents the combination of the three major laws that underlie all existence.
Myoho represents the Law of latency and manifestation (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. One state of myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists. This includes our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them, our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re not being expressed, our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma, and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes obvious to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory, whenever we experience or express our emotions, or whenever a good or bad effect manifests from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it simply means that it has come out of the state of ‘myo’ (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s simply the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing something.
The second law, renge, governs and controls the functions of myoho, ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect. The two laws of myoho and renge, both functions together simultaneously, as well as underlies all spiritual and physical existence.
The final and third part of the tri-combination, kyo, is what allows the law myoho to be able to integrate with the law renge. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects together all Life and matter, as well as the past, present and future. It is often termed the Universal Law of Communication. Perhaps it could even be compared to the string theory that some scientists now suspect exists.
Just as our body cells, thoughts, feelings and all else are constantly fluctuating within us, everything in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux, in accordance with these three laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible for us to calculate or describe. And it doesn't matter how big or small, important or trivial that anything may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of myoho-renge-kyo.
These three laws are also the basis of the four fundamental forces and if they didn't function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. Simply put, all forms of existence, including the seasons, day and night, birth, death and so on, are all moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation, rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two universal states of myo and ho in absolute accordance with renge and by way of kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn in accordance with the workings of what the combination myoho-renge-kyo represents.
Nam, or Namu, on the other hand, is a password or a key; it allows us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with myoho-renge-kyo. On a more personal basis, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives from moment to moment, as well in our environment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is turning, and rhythmically chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for a minimum of ten minutes daily, anyone can experience actual proof of its positive effects in their life.
In so doing, we can pierce through even the thickest layers of our karma and activate our Buddha Nature (the enlightened state). We’re then able to summon forth the wisdom needed to challenge, overcome and change our negative circumstances into positive ones. It brings forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that is preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we truly are, regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexual preference. We are also able to see and understand our circumstances and an environment more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations.
Actual proof soon becomes apparent to anyone who chants the words Nam-myoho-renge-kyo on a regular daily basis. Everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect, so the strength of the result from chanting depends on dedication, sincerity and determination. To explain it more simply, the difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, or producing a song and so on.
NB: There are frightening, disturbing sounds and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It's the emotional result from any sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day you are producing a sound vibration that is the password to your true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things, such as your fears and desires etc. The important way to get the best result when chanting is not to see things in a conventional way (difficult to achieve but can be done), rather than reaching out to an external source, you need to reach into your own life and bring your needs and desires to fruition from within, including any help that you may need. Think of it as a seed within you that you are bringing sunshine and water to in order for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s important to understand that everything that we need in life, all the answers and potential to achieve our dreams, already exist within us.
th-cam.com/video/6CZ0XJqWRr4/w-d-xo.html OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN sings about Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
He always going to back and stop the time and enter a new unlock who work 24 hour and he always found front and back who caled 1 this is gravity of 100
The video talks about the “Who am I?” question, and admits right off the start that this is just a question of feeling. We know feelings are often wrong. Doesn’t matter what someone feels. And ahead of time, before watching more, I’ll just remind you that who we are change because of physical chemical stimuli of the brain. You can suffer brain damage and have your memories wiped and change your entire personality drastically. I have one in my family who had her entire personality changed because of physical brain alteration.
The video says that thoughts can alter the brain. Okay. But you gotta demonstrate that thoughts are _immaterial_ then. I’m sure thoughts can change the physical body to some extent. That’s what placebo is. But I’m not aware that thoughts are immaterial. “This clearly supports mind over matter” You still have to make the case that mind is _not_ matter, and that’s what you’re arguing. That’s what you gotta present evidence for ... not merely assert that thought are immaterial and grab on to that and run with it. What’s the case for that? I’m sure that thoughts can change the body somewhat. What’s the nature of thoughts?
On the split brain. V. S. Ramachandran and others have done experiments with split brain patients too, and they say taht they have fund that there _is_ a difference. Ramachandran often speaks of the famous case where the two brain halves had a clear distinct personality each, where one was a theist and the other was an atheist. How’s that for “they seem fine”? And again. Listen to what Egnor says, two times even; they _seem_ fine. He isn’t describing any testing or observation or actual science. This is just how it seems. I don’t care what it seems like; I care what it is. And a body having two half brains separated, where only one of them controls speech, then it might _seem_ fine ... until you put a pen in the hands of them and allow the other half to write out in text what it thinks too. And these experiments have been done. To greater depth than “this seems like...”. And as I said ahead of time; we already have TONS of cases where physically altering the brain clearly does affect personality, memory, mood, even morality; heck; if we put enough alcohol in you, which is a chemical, and we alter your body and your brain chemically, then I think we all know that your morals are going to be altered a bit for the time, and you’re going to do some things that you wouldn’t otherwise do. Mood, ability to reason, consciousness, memory, personality; we already know that all of these _can_ be changed with some physical or chemical alteration of the brain. You can’t throw all that clear evidence in the bin, because one neuroscientist says that all _seems_ fine in this case.
“No matter what he did to the brain, he couldn’t alter it” No matter what he did? Did he throw the person out in front of a bus?!?!? We already know, as I said, that some alteration of the brain _can_ and _does_ alter personality. That’s not up for debate. And now you’re bringing someone who did X Y and Z to the brain, and nothing happened. I don’t care. It’s a red herring. He might as well have said “I opened the skull and I tickled the brain with a feather, and that didn’t do anything.” I don’t care what he did which didn’t do anything. I care about the tons of cases we already know of that alters a person’s brain. He is a scientist! He is bound by ethics. Of course he isn’t going to do _literally whatever_ to a brain, like smashing it with a hammer and seeing what happens.
“But he couldn’t change their consciousness” I can. Your consciousness switches off when you drink too much alcohol. Then you’re in the state where you’re no longer aware/conscious. You’re still awake, and you dance talk drink, etc. But your consciousness and awareness is switched off, and you don’t know what you’re doing in the moment, and you won’t remember a thing the next day. Consciousness _is_ affected by mere physical chemical stimulation of the brain.
“He couldn’t change their intellect”. I can. Quite simply, actually. Take off their clothes and put them in extreme cold temperatures. That experiment has been done tons of times too, often to study what happens to the body, but the mind was tested too, and one of the things that happen is that you can’t even do simple math. I watched the experiment where he was asked to answer 80 minus 9. He took his time to find the answer. And then he was asked; that result minus 9. And he gave up.
“He couldn’t change their sense of self”. V. S. Ramachandran oddly enough could when he performed the splitting of the brain, and he had one person who had one self, but ended up after the operation with one person with two selves, one a theist and the other an atheist.
I have no comments on free will at the end of this. But it is interesting that the video accuses others of ignoring this data ... when they have clearly ignored the _TONS_ of cases we already know of where people have had brain altering illnesses or accidents and they have come out with completely altered personalities and memories. Apparently, you have had to ignore that too - whether or not the 'free won't experiment' is ignored.
does the human mind manifests any indication of similarities to apes or monkeys as evolution says?
Split Brain competition going on with one hand eager to correct the other, even pushing the other hand away while solving the puzzle. See video: th-cam.com/video/0lmfxQ-HK7Y/w-d-xo.htmlm42s
Human brain is v.complex still undescovered 100% per individual person
In other words, programming since birth. We are what we are influenced with. Our parents, teachers, television, radio, music, friends, acquaintances, politics, news, economics, religion, history, etc. Always ask the question about anything...Why? Why is a powerful word and can get too the root of the real answer. And in doing that, you'll enter a new paradigm of thought.
Good heavens have you just realised this! I am a soul the body is my vehicle, same for every body! I am light, I am love, I am peace. I use my body to express myself. Knowing this I can steer this chariot, with the guidance of the Supreme Soul, God, to experience my true qualities of peace, love, joy, etc., and take on board powers of determination, power to overcome all obstacles, power to face etc., So that I can again become who I really am. Best wishes from a bk.
I don't agree with the materialist word view, but this video doesn't do much to discredit that world view. It just communicates that you oppose materialism.
Well this video also debunks some of the materialist claims
Discovery science
So we cant say we havent made any discovery in 21st century....we have actually acheived something great...and that is we have finally mixed materialism with the materials......this means we have actually buried it 6 feet under the ground....😂😂😂😂😂😂......materialism meets the materials...lolz
Good stuff
Despite 100 years of US gov't schools indoctrinating Materialist Atheism, I find that the majority of people in daily life have noticed the complex, majestic design of nature and appreciate that there must be a designer.
This video series is spot on in terms of its message but the anonymous mask thing is kinda cringe and off-putting.
What about Alzheimer’s where the person loses all sense of self?
Great vid
I think that out of body experiences are an indication that consciousness is not in our bodies. How can you perceived your own body from another point of view?. Its that even logical?.
Evolution Revolution
We need to be balanced and open-minded here (pardon the pun). On the one hand, it's true that materialism has problems explaining consciousness and everything related to our subjective experience of existence. But, on the other hand, dualism has all the problems identified with Descartes's philosophy, including:
1. What is the nature of the mind and where does it reside?
2. Where do mind and brain meet and interact (Descartes said in the pineal gland, which we now know is just silly)?
3. What happens to the mind when the (material) brain is destroyed?
None of us knows the answer and we all need to retain a modicum of modesty
Materialism and Descartes positions aren't the only possibilities. There are other interactive substance dualist positions and idealist positions and other possibilities.
1. What do you mean by "nature" of mind? Material things have locations, including our bodies and brains. But I'm not sure our selves do. When we play a multiplayer game, our character we control is part of the video game environment and you see from the perspective of your character. But you aren't within the game.
2. I have no idea. But why is not knowing problematic? Interaction contravenes some law or principle like conservation of energy? Well, it would have to contravene *some* law since current science leaves out consciousness completely in its description of reality (unless you're a materialist).
3. Who knows. I think the self survives and goes elsewhere and might eventually get reincarnated again.
If a memory was illecited by direct brain stimulation, the actual person had to make the decision to convey that memory. They could have chosen to lie about what they saw.
this is fine, so far as it goes. But I have never taken it seriously for a minute - why should a philosophy that actually excludes Meaning from human existence by insistence on 'Matter IS All There Is', be taken seriously? The matter is hiding the meaning in the electrons? The atoms? The molecules? Come on - take yourself seriously enough to see past the meat robot, and I will take you more seriously